From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 09/26] net/mlx5e: Init ethtool steering for representors
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:20:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200416172001.GC1388618@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3xEMjfWL=c=voGqV4pUCzWXmiTn-R6mrRi82UAVHMVysKU1g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 04:40:31PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:00 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
> > I'd maybe point out that the selection process is based on a neural
> > network which knows about the existence of a Fixes tag in a commit.
> >
> > It does exactly what you're describing, but also taking a bunch more
> > factors into it's desicion process ("panic"? "oops"? "overflow"? etc).
>
> As Saeed commented, every extra line in stable / production kernel
> is wrong.
What? On what do you base that crazy statement on? I have 18+ years of
direct experience of that being the exact opposite.
> IMHO it doesn't make any sense to take into stable automatically
> any patch that doesn't have fixes line. Do you have 1/2/3/4/5 concrete
> examples from your (referring to your Microsoft employee hat comment
> below) or other's people production environment where patches proved to
> be necessary but they lacked the fixes tag - would love to see them.
Oh wow, where do you want me to start. I have zillions of these.
But wait, don't trust me, trust a 3rd party. Here's what Google's
security team said about the last 9 months of 2019:
- 209 known vulnerabilities patched in LTS kernels, most without
CVEs
- 950+ criticial non-security bugs fixes for device XXXX alone
with LTS releases
> We've been coaching new comers for years during internal and on-list
> code reviews to put proper fixes tag. This serves (A) for the upstream
> human review of the patch and (B) reasonable human stable considerations.
If your driver/subsystem is doing this, wonderful, just opt-out of the
autosel process and you will never be bothered again.
But, trust me, I think I know a bit about tagging stuff for stable
kernels, and yet the AUTOSEL tool keeps finding patches that _I_ forgot
to tag as such. So, don't be so sure of yourself, it's humbling :)
Let the AUTOSEL tool run, and if it finds things you don't agree with, a
simple "No, please do not include this" email is all you need to do to
keep it out of a stable kernel.
So far the AUTOSEL tool has found so many real bugfixes that it isn't
funny. If you don't like it, fine, but it has proven itself _way_
beyond my wildest hopes already, and it just keeps getting better.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 23:13 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 01/26] net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 02/26] net: phy: probe PHY drivers synchronously Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 04/26] net: phy: mscc: accept all RGMII species in vsc85xx_mac_if_set Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 06/26] mwifiex: set needed_headroom, not hard_header_len Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 07/26] Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle l2cap config request during open state Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 09/26] net/mlx5e: Init ethtool steering for representors Sasha Levin
2020-04-12 7:10 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-12 17:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-04-12 18:29 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-14 1:56 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 7:16 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-14 10:22 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-14 11:09 ` Greg KH
2020-04-14 14:38 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-14 15:16 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 15:49 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-14 17:37 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-14 19:03 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-04-14 21:00 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 22:50 ` Michal Kubecek
2020-04-15 5:31 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-15 14:07 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 20:57 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-15 16:18 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-16 0:00 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 4:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 5:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-16 13:30 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 19:07 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 19:58 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 21:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-17 8:28 ` gregkh
2020-04-17 22:23 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-18 10:51 ` gregkh
2020-04-17 13:21 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-17 22:38 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 13:40 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-16 14:04 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 14:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-16 14:36 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 17:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-04-16 19:31 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 19:53 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 21:32 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 23:23 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-21 3:07 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 20:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-04-16 21:11 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-17 8:25 ` gregkh
2020-04-16 16:06 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-16 18:49 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-20 11:45 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-20 12:53 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 10/26] Bluetooth: Fix calculation of SCO handle for packet processing Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 11/26] Bluetooth: guard against controllers sending zero'd events Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 13/26] net: intel: e1000e: fix possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in e1000e_get_hw_semaphore() Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 19/26] Bluetooth: RFCOMM: fix ODEBUG bug in rfcomm_dev_ioctl Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 20/26] brcmfmac: Fix driver crash on USB control transfer timeout Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 26/26] svcrdma: Fix leak of transport addresses Sasha Levin
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